Joel Rosenberg on May 23, 2013 at 3:17 am Several years ago, when I mapped out the plot for my novel, Damascus Countdown, I tried to imagine a scenario in which Iran and its agents would attempt to take over Syria, attempt to make it a… Read More ›
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Israel Tells Russia They Will Wipe Out Syria If Assad Attacks
Israel has warned Damascus that if President Assad chooses to hit back at Israel for any further Israeli military strikes, Israel will bring down his regime. An Israeli official confirmed Wednesday night that a dramatic and unprecedented message to this… Read More ›
Hezbollah to open ‘new front’ in Golan Heights
Iran reportedly convinces Assad to let Lebanese group attack Israel from Syrian territory, calls on ‘all Arabs and Muslims’ to unite and join fight Poster of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah from 2006 (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) SOURCE Iran has convinced… Read More ›
Hezbollah head says Syria will supply ‘game-changing’ arms
BEIRUT — Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday that Syria will supply his Lebanese militia with “game-changing weapons,” describing the move as Syria’s response to airstrikes earlier in the week. Nasrallah spoke less than a week after unnamed… Read More ›
The Situation in Syria
KHOUSE For many years now, the Islamic Republic of Iran conducted an organized campaign to keep President Bashar al-Assad in power for as long as possible. The purpose of keeping Assad in power was to assure access to Syrian airspace,… Read More ›
Embassies raise alert levels, Israelis line up for gas masks
A gas mask distribution center (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash 90) Syria strike raises fears that Hezbollah may attack homefront or missions abroad By Asher Zeiger May 5, 2013, 11:52 pm | Times of Israel Preparedness at Israeli embassies was stepped… Read More ›
Syria Claims Israel Used Depleted Uranium In Air Strike Over Weekend
NowTheEndBegins.Com Israel used depleted uranium shells in the alleged strike in Syria on Sunday, a senior Syrian military source told Russia Today on Monday. “When the explosion happened it felt like an earthquake, then a giant golden mushroom of fire… Read More ›
Video, Syrian Bomb Leaves Mushroom Cloud
Before it’s News -RT has managed to speak to local journalist Abdallah Mawazini, for a report on the latest developments. “When the explosion happened in Damascus, all the houses were shaken. There was dust everywhere. Right now we’re receiving more… Read More ›
Iran, Syria prep retaliation for Israeli airstrikes
Officials warn of terrorist attacks in Africa, South America Published: 7 hours ago Aaron Klein TEL AVIV – Iran has instructed the Al Quds unit of the Revolutionary Guard to prepare a response to Israel’s reported airstrikes Sunday and Friday… Read More ›
Syria ‘to open borders’ for flood of terror
So jihad groups can launch attacks on Israel Published: 3 hours ago Aaron Klein TEL AVIV – The Syrian government will soon declare it is opening its borders with Israel for Palestinian and other jihad groups to carry out attacks… Read More ›
Why Netanyahu ordered more air strikes in Syria: Analysis
Joel Rosenberg | May 5, 2013 at 2:24 pm Around 2:00am Sunday morning local time, Israeli fighter planes conducted another round of air strikes against Syrian targets. This was the second round of Israeli preemptive strikes in the last 48 to 72… Read More ›
WORLD WAR 3 “MIGHT” HAVE STARTED
Courtesy of John McTernan’s Blog Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. Commentary Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Bashar Assad. Report: Syria stations missile batteries… Read More ›
Syria: Israeli attack equals declaration of war. Iron Domes at Haifa and Safed
DEBKAfile Special Report May 5, 2013, 2:44 PM (IDT) Syria‘s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said Sunday, May 5, that the strike at Syria overnight represented a “declaration of war” by Israel. Russian and Iranian media earlier predicted full-scale Middle East… Read More ›
Israel Targeted Iranian Missiles in Syrian Attack
John McTernan‘s Blog Excerpt: Verse of the Day Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. Commentary Damascus the Doomed City: Isaiah17:1 The end of Syria… Read More ›
PROPHECY ‘War’ ALERT: Syria says Damascus targeted by fresh Israeli strike
State TV reports military site on outskirts of capital hit by Israeli rockets; IDF declines to comment; Hezbollah claims Israeli plane shot down; Jerusalem reportedly hit Iranian missile shipment in Damascus on Friday By Times of Israel staff and AP… Read More ›
Israel Strikes Syrian Chemical Weapons Compound
NowTheEndBegins.com American sources reported Israeli air strikes Saturday, May 4, against a number of targets in Syria including a chemical weapons depot outside Damascus. They were carried out remotely from Lebanese air space and the Golan starting Friday and continuing… Read More ›
Reports: IAF Aircraft Fly over Damascus
According to reports from Syrian media, IAF aircraft flew earlier today above the presidential palace in Damascus, apparently as a message for Assasd According to various reports from Syria, Israeli Air Force aircraft flew earlier today this morning above the… Read More ›
Chemical warfare looms over Syria – Israel passes atropine to rebels
SOURCE As the Syrian civil way went into its third year this week, signs abounded of increasing readiness for the use of chemical weapons on both sides of the conflict. Since February, the US, Israel, Ankara and Amman have been… Read More ›
Syrian activists: Air strikes, clashes across country
FILE – In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 file photo, a Syrian woman stands amid the ruins of her house which was destroyed in an airstrike by government warplanes a few days earlier, killing 11 members of her family, in… Read More ›
Images of war:Assad’s forces have reduced buildings to rubble – A Child Wanders Amidst the Rubble
(Daily Mail) Standing amid the ruins, a child gazes at the devastation war has brought to his home in Syria. Once Deir al-Zor was a busy town in the eastern part of the country, with a growing tourist industry, but… Read More ›
Israel Threatens Lebanon and Syria with Military Force
Posted on April 6, 2013 by END TIME HEADLINES Israel has recently intensified air force flights over Lebanon. It gives rise to suspicions it may preparing for sizable offensive air operations against Hezbollah or Syria, or both, as Islamists advance… Read More ›
Syria and Psalm 83
By KHouse While most literate Christians have heard of the “War of Gog and Magog” in Ezekiel 38-39 there is another passage that might be closer on our horizon. Psalm 83 describes a confederacy of countries surrounding Israel who come… Read More ›
Reputedly Conservative Churches Embrace ‘Holy Yoga’
COUNTDOWN TO ETERNITY-SHANE MARK Just when you may have thought things couldn’t get worse in reputedly conservative churches, they do. I have been counseling people – and advising them to leave – an Orthodox Presbyterian church where “Holy Yoga” is… Read More ›
Historic Damascus synagogue looted and destroyed
Inscription on the Jobar Synagogue, near Damascus, Syria (photo credit: screen capture YouTube) Assad forces and rebels trade blame for destruction of 2,000-year-old Jobar shul, Syria’s holiest Jewish site By JTA and Yoel Goldman April 1, 2013, 2:07 am |… Read More ›
Barack Hussein Obama is arming Syrian jihadists who are killing Christians
REBLOGGED FROM BARE NAKED ISLAM 1,000 Christians have been killed in Syria, 200,000 more have fled the country in which Christians had been the majority 2,000 years ago.Christian churches were in Damascus 600 years before anyone had even heard of… Read More ›
Syria’s Assad looks to bypass the West with urgent appeal
Syrian President Bashar Assad during a rare public appearance on March 20, 2013, when he attended a meeting in Damascus of people who lost family members in the conflict. / CBS News CBS/AP/ March 27, 2013, 9:48 AM DAMASCUS, Syria Syria’s… Read More ›
Asma Assad shows her face, scotching escape rumors
Bashar al-Assad‘s wife is alive and well – and has not fled from Syria with her three children LAST UPDATED AT 15:39 ON Mon 18 Mar 2013 | SOURCE ASMA ASSAD, wife of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, has made… Read More ›
Assad Confirmed Dead: Iran attempts to control Syria
Posted on March 26, 2013 by ddclaywriter (reblogged) If true…this is stunning news. This could speed things up over in the Middle East. It’s really bad over there anyway, but if Iran is in Syria and planning to take control… Read More ›
Half of U.N. staff to leave Syria
Last Update: Tuesday, 26 March 2013 KSA 23:38 – GMT 20:38 SOURCE Filipino United Nations peacekeepers drive at the Kuneitra border crossing between Israel and Syria, in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights earlier in March.(Reuters) Al Arabiya with agencies… Read More ›
Rumor: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad Shot By Bodyguard, May Be ‘Seriously Wounded’ Or Dead
03/24/2013| Reblogged from Midnight Watcher’s Blogspot–Please Visit Soon! A subsequent update indicates that Bashar al-Assad was “seriously wounded” by gunfire late Saturday, March 23, 2013 and is clinging to life. I’ll update this post as more information comes in …… Read More ›
“Syria rebels, regime blame each other for first alleged chemical weapons attack”
Joel C. Rosenberg The eyes of the world are being drawn back to Syria today, with a growing sense that a great evil has been unleashed, or is about to be. The big question at the moment: Have chemical weapons… Read More ›
First Chemical Weapon Attack Takes Place In Syria
SOURCE DAMASCUS, Syria Syrian state media accused rebels of firing a chemical weapon for the first time on Tuesday in the north of the country, killing at least 15 people in the war-torn Aleppo province. Rebels quickly denied the report… Read More ›
U.S. intel: Syrian bioweapons program has moved beyond R&D phase
SOURCE WASHINGTON – The United States has determined that Syria, despite civil war, was moving toward biological weapons capability. The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad was advancing in its BW program. In… Read More ›
Prophecy Update! Exciting Times!!!
By Gordon King Hello folks! I pray for everyone reading this post and may God bless you all! The world is rapidly moving towards the Tribulation period. Prophetic signs continue to happen and with more frequency. Jesus told us to… Read More ›
France, Turkey plot to assasinate Assad: Report
Sun Mar 3, 2013 8:28AM GMT | SOURCE A Lebanese news website says it has obtained a documentary movie revealing a plot hatched by French and Turkish spy agencies to assassinate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Lebanese Asianews website says the… Read More ›
Syrian leader in Damascus threatens to retaliate against Israel for airstrikes. Netanyahu urges Israeli leaders to unite in face of Iran & Syria threats.
Joel C. Rosenberg’s Blog March 3, 2013 at 12:16 pm For almost four decades, the Israeli-Syrian border has been Israel’s quietest border, a Jewish publication recently noted. Now, however, tensions are mounting rapidly and the prospect of a serious conflagration there is growing… Read More ›
Mortars explode near Assad’s palace in Damascus
Minor damage, no injuries in first strike near the presidential compound as Syrian rebels bring the fight to regime’s heart February 19, 2013, 6:29 pm | SOURCE DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Two mortars exploded near one of Syrian President Bashar… Read More ›
Amos Speaks Again
This Week’s Feature Article by Jack Kelley Tucked away among over 8,000 posts currently available on the website is a series of articles in a category called “The Prophets Speak Again”. This category contains commentaries on the so-called minor prophets…. Read More ›
Isaiah The Prophet Predicts The Fall of Damascus. Could it be Happening Now?
Isaiah 17 could be in play in Damascus. Things are getting worse by the day there. Chaos is rampant!
Insight: Divided Damascus confronted by all-out war
Wed, Feb 13 2013 By Samia Nakhoul | SOURCE DAMASCUS (Reuters) – MiG warplanes roar low overhead to strike rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad on the fringes of Damascus, while artillery batteries pound the insurgents from hills overlooking… Read More ›
Senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander assassinated in Lebanon. Was it Israel, or the Syrian rebels?
Joel Rosenberg | February 15, 2013 at 4:06 am A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander was assassinated in Lebanon today as he traveled into the country from Damascus. Was Israeli responsible for taking out the Iranian commander who was working closely with Hezbollah?… Read More ›
Kerry says 90,000 have been killed in Syria. Fall of Damascus may not be far off.
JOEL ROSENBERG | on February 14, 2013 at 11:07 pm “After nearly two years of fighting, the death toll in Syria has reached some 90,000 people, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday,” according to AP and the… Read More ›
North Korea and Iran – partners in nuclear and missile programs
SOURCE There is full awareness in Washington and Jerusalem that the North Korean nuclear test conducted Tuesday, Feb. 12, brings Iran that much closer to conducting a test of its own. A completed bomb or warhead are not necessary for… Read More ›
Israel Air Force now holds key to fate of Damascus, Assad regime
SOURCE The Syrian rebels’ hyped up “Great Confrontation” to capture Damascus the capital has ended in a draw with Bashar Assad‘s army like all their previous offensives in recent months. They failed to break through to the heart of the… Read More ›
IDF says calm on Syria border ‘deceptive’
Israel News, Ynetnews. Military sources say escalating civil war in Syria, anti-Israel aggression fostered by Assad, increase likelihood of terror attack on what has essentially been Israel’s most tranquil border thus far Yoav Zitun Published: 02.10.13, 00:22 / Israel News… Read More ›
Damascus under siege by Rebel forces
Rebel push into Damascus raises fears of long fight coupled by mass exodus February 08, 2013 | foxnews.com - Associated Press This image taken from video obtained from Ugarit News on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, which has been authenticated based… Read More ›
